The Pendragon Chronicles: Heroic Fantasy from the Time of King Arthur

This is not a book for the timid.As an anthology, one can t judge any part of it based on any other part of it, but it proves a legitimately difficult read, and speaking as someone who has made it through than his fair share of Arthurian romance, that s saying a bit Many of the writers therein felt that the best way to get their story across in contemporary fiction was to ape as closely as possible the clipped style of Malory himself, resulting in pompous, arrhythmic fiction.The tragedy of this [...]

Introduction The Pendragon Chronicles 1990 essay by Mike AshleyDramatis Personae The Pendragon Chronicles 1990 essay by Mike AshleyChief Dragon of the Island 1983 short fiction by Joy ChantThe Dragon s Boy Merlin s Booke 1985 novelette by Jane YolenThe Knight with the Two Swords 1976 novelette by John SteinbeckMorte D Alain 1952 short story by Maxey Brooke King s Man 1990 short story by Sasha MillerSir Percivale of Wales 1953 short fiction by Roger Lancelyn GreenFor to Achieve Your Adventure 195 [...]

Good mixture of traditional tales of chivalry and and modern retellings of the Arthurian legend I found a couple of unfamiliar authors add them to my list to follow Most helpful list of 100 years of Arthurian Legend at the end of the book handy for trips to the local used bookstore It provides a good jumping off point from which to delve deeper and deeper into these facinating legends.

This collection of Arthurian stories is a mixed bag Some of the stories flowed nicely with a story that kept the interest going until the end Others jumped all over the place with no discernible segues and that made for a lackluster read In many of the stories the characters were ready to fight someone at the least provocation and a few of the scenes were quite gory.

I had to stop reading this, because I was having trouble comprehending it, and what I understood was not appropriate for my age level I really truly could not read this book, and that doesn t usually happen to me.

This was an anthology of legends about king Arthur and the knights of the round table I liked the stories which had a nice adventure and a look back in time.

This is a great collection of short stories from King Arthur lore It also has a glossary of the characters and the different names they go by, and the places mentioned in the stories.